Introduction

The bibliography provides information on writings dealing with the history of rape, including sexual child abuse, sexual harassment, sexual molestation, child prostitution, forced prostitution, sexual slavery, sexual(ized) violence. The blog informs about calls for papers, forthcoming events and new literature in this field.

[Info] Marsh, Gabrielle. Breaking the Silence. Effects of the dictatorship on Chilean society: An Analysis of Four Works of Chilean Literature: La Muerte y La Doncella by Ariel Dorfman, Estrella Distante, and Nocturno de Chile by Roberto Bolaño, and Por favor, Rebobinar by Alberto Fuguet. M.A. Thesis, University of Otago, 2013.

[Info] Powers, Karen V. Women in the Crucible of Conquest: The Gendered Genesis of Spanish American Society, 1500–1600. Albuquerque 2005.

[Info] van der Meer, Theo. »Eugenic and sexual folklores and the castration of sex offenders in the Netherlands (1938-1968).« Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 39 (2008): 195-204.

[Info] van der Meer, Theo. »Voluntary and therapeutic castration of sex offenders in The Netherlands (1938-1968).« International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 37 (2014): 50-62.

[Info] Yang, Mi-gang. »The Role of East Asian Civil Society and its Response to Japan's Falsification of History.« Forced Prostitution in Times of War and Peace: Sexual Violence against Women and Girls. Edited by Barbara Drinck et al. Bielefeld 2007: 201- .

Journal: Social Inclusion
Guest Editor: Siddharth Kara
Submission deadline for abstracts: April 30, 2014Description: »This issue will focus broadly on current perspectives relating to human trafficking and modern forms of slavery. A blend of economic, legal, human rights, public health, and other perspectives will be included, with a particular focus on new data. Definitional issues should be explored, as well as less documented forms of contemporary servitude, such as bonded labor, organ trafficking, and forced marriage. What constitutes contemporary forms of slavery, what is the latest data on slavery and human trafficking, how do we best frame the issue, and what is being done effectively to tackle this enduring violation of fundamental rights?«

Conference: Living war. Thinking peace (1914-1921). Women’s experiences, feminist thought and international relations
Place: Venice, Italy
Date: November 27-28, 2014
Submission deadline for proposals: February 28, 2014Description: »The themes of the conference will bring together women’s experiences of war, feminist thought on the war/peace dichotomy, and the actions and behaviours that actualised the female vision of the issues and suffering brought about by the war. In methodological terms, preference will be given to subjective and collective perspectives in order to move beyond the conventional images and representations produced by wartime “deployment”.«

Conference: First World War Conference
Place: West Point, New York, United States
Date: September 11-14 2014
Submission deadline for proposals: April 4, 2014Description: »In this conference, therefore, we invite paper proposals that focus on the unique literature, history, and memory inspired by the First World War. In this interdisciplinary conference, we will consider how the war shifted the manner in which we craft war’s historical narrative, and explore the ways in which the war crafted our understanding of modern identity.«

[Info] Muchembled, Robert. A History of Violence: From the End of the Middle Ages to the Present. Cambridge 2012.

[Info] Murph, Karen S. Negotiating the Master Narratives of Prostitution, Slavery, and Rape in the Testimonies by and Representations of Korean Sex Slaves of the Japanese Military (1932-1945). Ph.D. Thesis, Georgetown University, 2008.

[Info] Rehman, Jessica L. Rape as Religious Terrorism and Genocide: The 1971 War Between East and West Pakistan. M.A. Thesis, California State University at Long Beach, 2012.

[Info] McGuirre, Danielle. »At the Dark End of the Street: Sexual Violence, Community Mobilization and the African American Freedom Struggle.« Havens Center for the Study of Social Structure and Social Change. Spring 2011.